A Study of Ethical and Cultural Considerations in the Integration of Artificial Intelligence and the Art of Dance
Data publikacji: 17 mar 2025
Otrzymano: 07 lis 2024
Przyjęty: 17 lut 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amns-2025-0303
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© 2025 Yanze Sun et al., published by Sciendo
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In the contemporary field of culture and art, the application of artificial intelligence technology is gradually changing the traditional art forms. Artificial intelligence has made certain achievements in the fields of painting, music, and screenwriting, and in the art of dance, the innovation and application of artificial intelligence also presents exciting prospects [1-3].
Artificial intelligence has changed the process of creating dance. By analyzing a large number of dance videos and dancers’ movements, AI can learn the movement characteristics and aesthetic elements of dance and generate brand new dance movements. Through the dance movements generated by AI, artists can get inspiration from them and create further [4-6]. This way makes the dance creation more diversified and innovative, and also breaks the traditional human-led creation. Artificial intelligence has changed the form of dance performance. Through sensors and deep learning technology, AI can capture dancers’ movements in real time and transform them into visual effects, music and lighting changes [7-9]. By interacting with AI, dancers can get more excitement and challenges in their performances. The innovation and application of artificial intelligence in the art of dance has brought new possibilities for the development of dance [10-11]. It changes the creative process of dance, brings new technical means for dance performance, and also promotes the innovative development of dance education. However, like any technology, the application of AI in the field of dance also faces challenges and problems in terms of ethics, and requires continuous research and exploration [12-15].
Wang,Z. discussed the use of AI-driven immersive technologies in dance education and the application of technologies such as VR and AR in dance teaching, pointing out that the appropriate integration of these novel technologies by teachers in their daily contact is conducive to the enhancement of dance skills [16]. Zhao,X. introduced the CBRSF model designed specifically for the algorithms of emotion analysis and expression in the context of dance movements. Its advantage is that it can incorporate the contextual information around the dance movements and is able to better capture the emotional differences of the dance performances, which not only exhibits a very high emotion recognition rate but also enables the expression of emotions [17]. Zhang,X. initiated a research on adaptive-based techniques to improve the recognition of dance movements by utilizing different movement sequence segmentation techniques. By incorporating the ST-GCN attention module into the ST-GCN network, a performance improvement was achieved and the recognition accuracy of dance movements was improved with the help of transfer learning techniques [18]. Nogueira,M.R. et al. emphasized that machine learning techniques have not only positive but also negative impacts on the development of art. Aiming to provide valuable recommendations for technologies such as machine learning in enhancing the artistic practice of dance, and elaborating on aspects of this field that require further in-depth research [19]. Yoshida,S. discusses the sustainable creativity of AI assisting in the creation of dance works in order to improve the understanding of non-human choreography. By experiencing movements that cannot be realized by the human body through dancing with AI, the fusion of AI and dance opens the door for creativity in the art of dance [20]. Lee,H.H. et al. elucidated the changes that have occurred in dance education in the age of artificial intelligence. By comparing the differences that exist between traditional dance education and AI dance education, it is concluded that AI dance education is conducive to increasing the expertise and scalability in the field of dance, as well as effectively improving the motivation of teachers and students [21].
The rapid development of artificial intelligence in the field of dance art has also brought about ethical and cultural problems, such as the impact on individual emotions, leading to a crisis of trust, employment difficulties, the right of belonging to the subject of creation, the end of art or not, and other ethical and cultural issues. This paper focuses on how to use ethical and culturally reasonable considerations to cope with the development of AI in the integration of dance art, with a view to better solving the problems brought about by the application of AI in the field of dance art. The public’s views on the attitudes towards the governance of AI were analyzed through the use of questionnaires. While clarifying the concept that ethical and cultural considerations should be used to respond, specific considerations for ethical and cultural responses in the era of AI development are sorted out.
Essentially, AI dance and traditional dance are both forms of artistic expression of dance, with the essential attributes of dance, are the human body as a material carrier of art, is refined, organized, beautified human movement. Aesthetic attributes are lyrical emotion, aesthetic interest, reflecting life. Dance exists in three conditions, namely, time, space, and flowing human movement. From the point of view of dance performance, the dance that incorporates AI virtual technology [22], the character’s expression, movement and traditional dance compared to more rigid, not flexible enough to give the feeling of lifeless, less expression, difficult to show the lyrical nature of the dance, can only do a single expression at the moment, there is no traditional dance form of the character’s rich emotions. But from a spatial point of view, AI dance can reach the sky and the earth through technical means, will occasionally disappear and suddenly appear, the scope of innovation is larger and more spatial. While traditional dance can only innovate in the human body, appearance, choreography, and other physical spaces, it cannot achieve the arbitrariness and freedom of AI dance.
AI dance has versatility in image, which can be changed according to people’s needs, and the dancers can be in the form of teenagers or children, etc., which can effectively enhance the visual effect of the dance and has certain educational significance.
Artificial intelligence dance art generation will also have an impact on human artistic emotion and emotional communication. First, the emergence of AI dance art breaks the argument that dance art must convey emotion. Dance art works without emotion or fake emotion infusion can also trigger people’s aesthetic feelings and resonance. Current artificial intelligence cannot really produce emotion, but can only simulate emotion through “emotion calculation” or setting up emotion programs. Whether it is emotion calculation or setting up an emotion program, it is not always the emotion of the AI itself. This kind of false emotion can also move people, but once it is found to be false, people will feel fooled.
Artificial intelligence’s simulation of emotions makes people first face an emotional crisis of trust, and on this basis, it will trigger a bigger crisis of trust between humans and machines. Although AI’s simulation of emotions can be beneficial to people in the art of dance [23], they can disrupt the emotional communication methods and trust mechanisms of the human life community, and “people’s attention is gradually attracted to the virtual world”, and the sense of empathy and communion between people is no longer universal and reliable. As artificially intelligent dance art and texts become more and more ubiquitous, people need to make judgments about the authenticity of dance artworks before making aesthetic judgments about them: Is this a human work or an artificially intelligent work. Are the emotions depicted in these works real or simulated?In addition to AI dance artworks, the face swapping, virtual anchors, and robotic customer service mentioned earlier can lead to a crisis of trust.
Artificial intelligence-generated artworks can also lead to employment and labor issues in the cultural industry. As it stands, AI programs can already generate works of a certain quality in music, dance, and other disciplines. Some low-end jobs in the cultural industry are more likely to be replaced, such as illustrators, line-drawing technicians, junior designers, soundtrack artists, and so on. And some individual dance artists will also find it hard to survive under the full siege of AI. The dance art market will be filled with inexpensive AI artworks. This will trigger unemployment in the dance art market, forcing people to move to other jobs that are more difficult to replace, and low- and mid-range jobs in the dance arts industry will slowly disappear. Therefore, how to anticipate the future state of the industry and direct technology’s direction is an important issue that needs to be urgently thought through.
Who is the subject of creation in the dance artwork that was interacted with artificial intelligence? Traditional art belongs to the creator, who is a living flesh and blood person with distinctive emotions. The artificial intelligence in the period of narrow artificial intelligence is an intelligent tool with reason and no emotion, and it is not easy to define the creators of the dance art works it intervenes in, is it the AI programmer? Or the person using the AI? Artificial intelligence is challenging the status of authorship, and it is obviously much more difficult to create unique works with an authorial style in the field of dance art. Compared to AI, which also draws on the experience of great works of art and artists, and is oriented to the specific needs of the audience, the works of human artists can be labeled as original, while the authorship of the AI “artifacts” is still debatable.
As the main source of artistic creation is a human being, the artist is in a fixed and dominant position in the flow of artistic creation. Artists in a particular era are influenced by the political background, personal experience, and other conditions when creating works of art with a personal imprint. And after artificial intelligence intervenes in the creation of dance art, the absolute power of man is weakened, and replaced by a tool that serves as an auxiliary in traditional art. The computer as a terminal does not need to acquire life experience, relying on an algorithm that excludes irrationality and deep learning of artistic structures, forms, etc. acquired from human beings, and making optimal decisions according to the relevant decision-making system after summarizing the laws [24], obtaining a new form of artistic results.
There is no fixed creative background for the subject of appreciation to deeply investigate, from creation to communication is full of multiple meanings and ambiguity, the subject of appreciation can not find the entrance with which to travel, the subject of appreciation is familiar with the color, line patchwork, coincidentally, did not cross the cognitive gap, just like in the stream of consciousness works to find not unfamiliar remnants of the wall, not from the overall view of the work of art, forcibly explain the meaning of the work of extension I’m afraid that it can not be called a work of art. I am afraid that without examining the work of art from a general point of view, it cannot be considered a work of art. Contrary to this view, does the temporary lack of consciousness of an AI completely disqualify it from being a work of choreographic art?
“The so-called art ending in the subject does not refer to the demise or disappearance of the subject, but to the turnover or replacement of the subject of art, that is, the subject of art shifting from human to artificial intelligence”, according to this statement, the subject of art has changed, and the artificial intelligence completely replaces the human artist, which is, of course, the most extreme result. Instead of falling deeply into the eschatological complex of being succeeded, human artists, how to utilize artificial intelligence, a more acceptable creative medium for the public, to accumulate power in dance art works, is the problem faced at this stage.
Questionnaires were used in the initial data collection phase of this investigation. In addition, a number of semi-questions were also pre-designed to help the researcher collect data information more effectively and organize and summarize it. In this research, all forms of surveys were conducted with the precondition of respondents’ consent, and the results of the surveys were also kept with the respondents’ knowledge for data retention. The detailed plan for this study is as follows:
1) 100 members of the general public whose occupation is related to art were selected as the main study population for this study. 2) To design the questionnaire questions. 3) Distribute the questionnaires to the respondents, collect and organize the information of the questionnaire data.
Before the formal survey begins, the researcher will clarify the background and objectives of the study to the respondents in advance, so that the respondents can make psychological expectations and provide valuable and thoughtful information during the questionnaire survey, which will help to improve the overall quality of the study. The respondents come from different places, with different education and backgrounds, and the questionnaires are distributed in two forms: online and offline. 100 questionnaires were distributed in this survey, and finally 100 recovered questionnaires were obtained, with a questionnaire recovery rate of 100%, which indicates that the public attaches great importance to the content of this survey and research. Part of the basic information of the survey respondents is shown in Table 1. The research object is basically concentrated between 20-30 years old.
The basic information of the survey
| Object number | Gender | Age | Educational background | Occupation | Will you dance | Interview mode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | man | 28 | undergraduate | designer | yes | line |
| 02 | female | 25 | master | student | no | |
| 03 | man | 26 | master | Ordinary clerk | no | offline |
| 04 | female | 29 | undergraduate | Ordinary clerk | no | line |
| 05 | man | 30 | undergraduate | dancer | yes | offline |
| 06 | female | 24 | undergraduate | student | yes | line |
| 07 | man | 20 | master | student | yes | offline |
| 08 | female | 29 | undergraduate | dancer | yes | line |
| 09 | man | 25 | master | student | no | line |
| 10 | female | 26 | undergraduate | dancer | yes | offline |
| 11 | man | 28 | master | dancer | yes | line |
| 12 | female | 30 | master | Ordinary clerk | no | offline |
| 13 | man | 32 | undergraduate | dancer | yes | line |
| 14 | female | 35 | undergraduate | dancer | yes | offline |
The main question addressed by the study is: what are the behavioral representations of users in using AI to create dance, and what kind of problems do these behavioral representations reveal, in order to analyze whether certain ethical and cultural constraints are needed in the process of using AI to create media. Therefore, the study obtained primary data through a questionnaire. The questionnaire was designed with a total of eight questions, and each question was designed with five response dimensions, namely strongly agree, agree, generally agree, disagree, and strongly disagree. The questions designed for the questionnaire are shown in Table 2.
Design problem content
| Question | Number |
|---|---|
| 1 | Ai’s dance is more ornamental than artificial |
| 2 | More than ten times |
| 3 | More people are using ai to create |
| 4 | Ai is creating more and more methods |
| 5 | Using ai for dancing |
| 6 | Use ai to make works of art |
| 7 | It is thought that ai needs certain constraints in the use of creative fields |
| 8 | The people around you recommend ai creative artificial intelligence |
The final results of the questionnaire survey are shown in Figure 1. As can be seen from Figure 1, on the eight questions designed in this paper, the dimensions answered by the 100 surveyed masses are more inclined to agree and strongly agree, and there are fewer and fewer people choosing to disagree and strongly disagree, which indicates that the development of AI-based dance art-assisted creation tools is getting more and more rapid, and appearing more and more frequently in the scope of the public’s life and work, and Question 7 The proportion of people who chose to agree and strongly agree reached 95%, and almost all of the surveyed masses believe that AI needs certain constraints when used in the field of creation, and that losing the constraints, the development of AI will become very uncontrollable, and there will be ethical and cultural collisions, so it is very necessary to put forward corresponding countermeasures.
Questionnaire survey results
In order to analyze the research object to understand the way of artificial intelligence for dance art creation tools, in addition, open-ended questions were designed for respondents to answer, the main ways of understanding are: popular science books, microblogging microblogging and other emerging media, television broadcasting newspapers, others informed and other possible situations, the details of which are shown in Table 3. As shown in Table 3, 52% of the users are using emerging media such as microblogging and weibo messaging to understand the AI pathway, and 23% of the users understand AI through TV broadcasting and other channels, which shows that AI applications have been greatly popularized, and the pathway to understand AI has become more and more extensive, and when the tools for the fusion of AI and dance art appear in the public’s attention at a high frequency, the ethical and cultural aspects brought about by it The corresponding direction will also increase, so this paper proposes a countermeasure inquiry of ethical and cultural response.
Understand the artificial intelligence path
| Pathway | Quantity | Proportion/% |
|---|---|---|
| Science book | 11 | 11 |
| Microblogs and other emerging media | 52 | 52 |
| Television broadcast | 23 | 23 |
| Others told | 10 | 10 |
| Other | 4 | 4 |
| Tot | 100 | 100 |
From the above analysis, it can be seen that the exponential increase in the application scenarios of the fusion of AI and dance art has brought about an increase in the difficulty of governance. Various issues are related to public production and life, and in the long run, they will even be related to the status of human subjects. The rapid development and wide application of artificial intelligence has penetrated into the level of people’s livelihood, in order to further explore the ethical response in the field of artificial intelligence in the field of dance art, the relevant options involved in the questionnaire survey are analyzed. The main optimization measures designed include: improving policies at the national level, strict implementation at the government level, strengthening the inspection of AI products at the enterprise level, and strengthening the supervision of the use of products at the user level. The survey aims to reach 50 people working in related industries, and the macro-level data analysis results are displayed in Fig. 2, and the ordinal numbers of the vertical coordinate, 1-5, respectively, represent the improvement of the policies at the national level and the strict implementation at the government level, enterprise level to strengthen the inspection of AI products, the user level to strengthen the supervision of product use and other aspects. At the macro level, the public prefers strict inspection of AI products at the enterprise level to ensure that their use complies with ethical norms, and the number of people who chose the enterprise level accounted for nearly half of the total number of people. Secondly, nearly 20% of users believe that user supervision should be strengthened, and finally, at the governmental level as well as at the level of national improvement, more than 30% of the public also believe that AI governance policies can be strengthened in terms of formulation and implementation.
Macro data results
The results of the survey on optimizable paths at the implementation level are shown in Figure 3, and the serial numbers 1-8 in the vertical coordinate represent eight paths, such as improving one’s own ethical literacy, strengthening training, strengthening effect evaluation, clarifying the responsible parties, actively listening to the public, broadening channels to encourage participation, improving ethical requirements, and others. Firstly, the public prefers to improve ethical requirements, and the number of people who choose ethical requirements is 20%, which shows that the public has begun to gradually use ethical responses to address the risks and problems that arise in the governance of AI application issues, followed by broadening channels to encourage participation, which shows that the public hopes to play a supervisory role in the implementation of AI governance policies. Finally, more than 10% of users think it is necessary to propose improvements in terms of clarifying responsibilities and strengthening training.
The execution layer can optimize the path data results
Figure 4 shows the statistical results of the responsibility identification situation, and the serial numbers 1-5 of the vertical coordinate represent the five responsibility identification subjects of AI companies, researchers, users themselves, the AI itself and others, respectively. In terms of responsibility determination, the public is more inclined to blame AI companies for AI application problems, with 50% of respondents choosing AI companies, followed by AI itself. However, in this regard, the national level has not yet clarified the subject of responsibility, so it is necessary to clarify the subject of responsibility.
Responsibility determines the main situation
The establishment and organization of ethics committees and the decentralization of authority need to be improved in regards to the integration of AI and the art of dance. However, governments and rule makers are not able to exhaust all possibilities, and regulation as an endogenous variable of the economic system, once the government is controlled by enterprises, which makes the subject of the exercise of public power change, it is likely to lead to the phenomenon of “regulatory collusion”. It also suggests that the habit of “solutionism” should be avoided in the governance of artificial intelligence.
Clarifying the determination methods and standards for the identification of the responsible subject from the government level, and establishing an ethical accountability system for the implementation of AI governance policies will form a greater degree of acceptance at the social level, and will be more conducive to the unification of the identification of responsibility at all levels of society, and will be conducive to the expansion of the scope of the application of ethical coping in the implementation of AI governance policies, and to the enhancement of the efficiency of the implementation, and to the improvement of the effectiveness of the AI governance policies.
The core framework of artificial intelligence and the role it plays depend more on the training data fed by technicians in the process of creating it, and whether the selection of these data meets ethical standards, and whether there is any discrimination or bias, this judgment standard also depends mainly on the technicians, and from this level, the proposal of ethical response has made the future development trend of the product more clear in the top-level design stage. The state should further clarify the entire innovation process, determine the boundary line of innovation, and stipulate the threshold of innovative products at the ethical level, only in this way can the AI governance policy be implemented in a way that will make the ethical response more gripping, and can protect public privacy more effectively.
In order to better achieve the integration of artificial intelligence and dance art application goals, first of all, we need to popularize the importance of ethical knowledge, only from the consciousness to enhance the awareness of ethical responsibility will be in the application of artificial intelligence consciously use ethical coping tools to restrain their own behavior. Second, strengthen the training by providing regular and regular ethical training to enhance the application of ethical tools. Finally, through practice and regular summaries, we can find out the various rules of AI in application scenarios.
Enterprises are reminded at the technology development stage that they should include ethical thinking in the product development stage. In order to achieve this goal can be taken through the government website publicity, major transportation slogans to remind and in the industry to further regulate the behavior of technicians, etc., to improve the ethical awareness of the enterprise’s technical management personnel, and then as far as possible in the entire R & D process to consider the development of the product should be in line with the ethical requirements for the smooth implementation of the fusion of AI and the art of dance to lay a foundation of ideas.
The development under the fusion of modern technology and dance has become mainstream, but the ensuing ethical and cultural aspects have become a major hindrance to its development, so this paper used a questionnaire to do a relevant study on the ethical and cultural considerations of the fusion of artificial intelligence and dance art.
Among the eight questions designed in this paper, the majority of individuals chose to agree and strongly agree, and the percentage of people who thought that certain constraints were required for its development reached 95%. It shows the rapid development of the integration of artificial intelligence and dance art, so AI is more in need of certain constraints when it is applied in the field of dance creation, and the development of artificial intelligence will be within a controllable range, so it is very important to put forward the corresponding countermeasures.
The public prefers strict testing of AI products on the enterprise side to ensure that their use complies with ethical norms, and the number of people choosing enterprises accounts for nearly half. The public tends to improve the ethical requirements of the number of people reached 20%, which can be seen, the public in the governance of the application of artificial intelligence problems began to gradually use ethical response to solve the risks and problems that arise, accordingly this paper on the above level puts forward the relevant ethical and cultural considerations, with a view to the fusion of artificial intelligence and the art of dance more compliant.
This research was supported by the 2024 National Social Science Fund Art Research Project (No. 24AH027): “Research on Intellectual Property System of Performance Artworks Generated by Artificial Intelligence”.
Note: This is the phased research result of the key project of the National Social Science Fund for Arts in 2024, “Research on the Intellectual Property System of Performing Artworks Generated by Artificial Intelligence” (Project No. 24AH027). It is also the research project of the Zhejiang Provincial Education Science Planning in 2025, “Interdisciplinary Application of Artificial Intelligence Technology in Dance Education” (Project No.: GH2025709).